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In Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination Holning Lau offers an incisive review of the conceptual questions that arise as legal systems around the world grapple with whether and how to
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This article deals with the literature on the French nonprofit sector (NPS). A preliminary part is devoted to presenting and discussing the characteristics that shape the approaches to this sector in
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This study develops a Christian theological response to the problems of race and anti-black racism in conversation with black theology and womanist theology. It interprets multiple voices, development
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